>Be you
>Boot up Dawnguard DLC in a world where Bethesda does things properlyç
>there's an alternate route to joining the Volkihar which doesn't require going through the Dawnguard, because it's specially stupid that if you're already a vampire, you'd show up at the HQ of the Anti-Vampire KKK.
>Dawnguard Weapons are made out of fucking SILVER, because it's canon that SILVER does TWICE AS MUCH DAMAGE to undead creatures.
>the Mace "light of Day" from Morrowind Makes a comeback.
>Hammers are stupid weapons to kill vampires with, my man Isran has a very fast runed danwguard claymore sword.
>Volkihar Vampires have a hard-on for ice magick
>they have a unique minor power that looks like the afflicted's vomit-spewing attack but it's actually a frostbite spell that does less HP damage but much more Stamina damage.
>Volkihar vampires ambush the player by leaping out of piles of snow and blocks of ice, much like how rieklings do.
>Their armor is insipired by Soul Reaver instead of Castlevania, so they are an aesthetic pairing with the armor that appears on their Vampire lord form.
>Volkihar Castle is hidden inside a glacier, and through a grotto, sort of like how the Sky Haven temple is. It's also surrounded by shipwrecks with the skeletons of ships hulls poking out of the water, maybe some whale bones here and there too.
>Volkihar Vampires can summon Barnacle-crusted, seaweed-draped, scurvy-having Pirate skeletons with actual cutlasses.
>Blood Magick in Vampire Lord form isn't a glowing red orb like an illusion spell. it's an actual orb textured like blood and can do shit like make people's heads explode and whatnot.
>Serana isn't the chick from Underworld, instead she's a demure lady-in-the-wateresque character who is encased in a magical block of ice and not a stone coffin, She has long wavy hair the color of dark seaweed.
>Instead of being a spoiled brat, she acts like a proper modest lady with a killer streak.
>Serana Can Kill Valerica in a Vampire lord Battle.
>When you get to icewater jetty, you have to use a lamp or a bell or something to summon a forlorn boatman (a Draugr in a black robe) who emerges from the bubbling water and takes you to the grotto (vampires cannot drown)
Just from of the top of my head…